Abstract
Work labeled FNEGE (2022), category "Collective Research Work" Socio-economic management makes the requirements of humanism in professional life and sustainable economic prosperity compatible.
The fruit of half a century of research and experimentation in economics and management, this Treatise is intended for management practitioners. It is illustrated with numerous cases, among 2,015 companies and organizations from a wide variety of sectors and presents observed and measured results. Most of these chapters are written jointly by managers or executives of companies and organizations, and teacher-researchers or consultants involved in the pilot actions.
This work is the work of 193 authors, from 16 countries and 4 continents, practitioners or academics in management sciences and management. This demonstrates the diversity of national and sectoral contexts of socio-economic management applications. A few chapters situate this concept in relation to the major currents of thought. The 113 chapters are written in the language of the authors, some in French, others in English or Spanish. Each is preceded by summaries in these three international languages. They are grouped into 11 parts: 1) Socio-economic management; 2) Organization of the ISEOR research center; 3) Stimulate the development of SMEs; 4) Support the development of mid-sized and large companies; 5) Lead public and parapublic service organizations; 6) Development and CSR strategies; 7) Management of human resources and human potential; 8) Management control; 9) Economics and management; 10) Epistemology and methodology of scientific research in management; 11) Connections: philosophical, sociological, geographical.
Socio-economic theory constitutes a “disruptive innovation”, both in terms of its conceptual contribution and the practical methods and tools of its applications. This global approach touches on the different functions of the company and its multiple issues. It provides a structured change management method, centered on the stimulation of Human Potential and the self-financing of the development of the company or organization, thanks to the periodic recycling of hidden costs.
The preface signed by René Ricol shows the scope of socio-economic theory and management beyond the boundaries of the company. The work illustrates the international influence (47 countries) of the innovative and robust methods created and developed by the ISEOR team.
A work coordinated by Henri Savall, Founding President of ISEOR (Institute of Socio-Economy of Businesses and Organizations), Professor Emeritus in Management Sciences of IAE Lyon, and Véronique Zardet, Director General of ISEOR, Professor of management sciences at IAE Lyon – Jean Moulin University. In 2001, they received the prestigious Prix Rossi Medal from the Academy of Moral and Political Sciences (Institut de France) for all of their work on the integration of social variables into business strategies. Both conduct numerous intervention researches each year in private and public companies and organizations in Europe and America. Henri Savall is the twentieth author, among the most influential in management in the world (FNEGE 2016 study).
AB - Using a historical approach to organization theory, the aim of this chapter is to show that the seeds of the Socio-Economic Approach to Management (SEAM) can be identified from the founding work on work motivation of the School of Human Relations in the 1920s. The main objective of this chapter is to show that socio-economic theory contributes to managing the problem of reconciling the social and economic aspects of business management that the School of Human Relations was not properly addressed and for which she was criticized.